2016 judging panel

Best in Biz Awards’ uniqueness stems, in part, from the composition of our judging panel. Only writers, journalists, and contributors to business, consumer, financial, trade and technology publications, as well as broadcast outlets and analyst firms, are invited to serve as judges. Structured this way, Best in Biz Awards is able to leverage the experience and expertise of an influential group of national opinion makers to determine award winners.

In our 6th annual program, we are excited to confirm the participation of the following 50 judges, including 29 judges returning from previous years’ judging panels, as well as several new additions to the group. For the press release announcing the final judging panel, please see here.

 

Accounting Today

Michael Cohn

MICHAEL COHN, editor-in-chief of AccountingToday.com, has been covering business and technology for a variety of publications since 1985. Prior to joining Accounting Today and WebCPA, he worked for Red Herring, Internet World, Beyond Computing, Accounting Technology and PC Magazine, and freelanced for a variety of other business publications. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English, he studied accounting at the Wharton School of Business, and currently lives in New York City.
Michael Cohn

AdWeek

Angela Natividad

ANGELA NATIVIDAD is the author of Generation Creation, an AdVerve Media production. She covers European advertising for AdWeek, and co-founded Hurrah.fr, the premier creative agency for the esports market. She lives in Paris. Follow her on Twitter at @luckthelady.
Angela Natividad

Associated Press

Kim Cook

A former marketing professional in both Toronto and Chicago, KIM COOK has spent the last ten years as a freelance journalist based in New York, covering international and national design, décor and lifestyle stories for several print and digital entities. Her regular “Right at Home” columns for the Associated Press focus on trends and topics across the Home categories. She writes about design directions, and profiles industry professionals, for both the National Kitchen & Bath Association’s Innovation + Inspiration magazine and the American Association of Interior Designers NY Metro magazine. Kim was also part of the judging panel for NY Now’s Best New Products awards this summer.
Kim Cook

Atlanta Tribune

Kamille D. Whittaker

KAMILLE D. WHITTAKER is the associate editor for Atlanta Tribune: The Magazine, Atlanta’s authority on business, economics and politics. Jamaica-nurtured, California-reared and now Atlanta-grounded, she has spent more than a decade primarily researching, reporting on and curating editorial coverage on the community and economic development of her multiple sites of “home” and the communities that comprise them. Whittaker began editing and proofing manuscripts for The Journal of Education for Business and The Journal of Economic Education at the D.C.-based Heldref Publications, an academic publisher. Since, she has worked with The Washington Post in conjunction with Newsweek magazine (formerly WPNI), and as a national correspondent for the National Newspaper Publishers Association, and its more than 200 member publications. Whittaker also served as co-editor of The Liberator Magazine with her fellow Howard University alumni, and happily mothers two teenage daughters — Kamani and Kennedi.
Kamille D. Whittaker

Bismarck Tribune

Kat Bryant

KAT BRYANT is a copy editor at the Bismarck Tribune. Previously, she held numerous editorial positions at the Phoenix Business Journal and the Silicon Valley Business Journal from 1989 to 2015, earning several industry awards for editing, headline writing and design. She also does freelance editing and proofreading for various forms of media. She attended the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she worked full time for four years on the student daily newspaper and discovered her true calling.
Kat Bryant

Business News Daily

Nicole Fallon

NICOLE FALLON is the managing editor of Business News Daily, a resource for small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. She has been covering business and career trends since 2010, when she started out as a freelancer for BND. Prior to joining the staff full-time, she spent a year as the editor of a cooking and nutrition website. Nicole holds a Bachelor’s degree in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University.
Nicole Fallon Taylor

Chip Design Magazine

Dave Bursky

Currently a contributing editor for Chip Design Magazine, DAVE BURSKY has over 40 years experience working as an engineer and editor. Dave is president and founder of PRN Engineering Services, a technical writing and market consulting company and from 2006 through early 2011 was the technical editorial manager at Maxim Integrated Products. Prior to Maxim, Dave had over 33 years of experience as an editor, writing for publications such as Electronic Design and EE Times. In 2005 he was inducted into the Communications Society Hall of Fame for lifetime achievement at the City College of New York. Additionally, in 1988 he was described by an article in the San Jose Mercury News as one of the 100 most influential people in Silicon Valley. Dave has served on the program committees of numerous IEEE and commercial conferences, and has authored six books on topics ranging from personal computers to semiconductor memories. Dave holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the City College of the City University of New York.
Dave Bursky

CIO Dive

Naomi Eide

NAOMI EIDE is the associate editor for CIO Dive, responsible for covering the enterprise tech industry, from the rise of the cloud to Big Data in business. Prior to joining CIO Dive, she spent time covering federal contracting and Maryland state news. Naomi holds a B.A. from Providence College and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
Naomi Eide

CNET

Chris Matyszczyk

CHRIS MATYSZCZYK is the president of creative consultancy Howard Raucous LLC and the creator of the Inc column Absurdly Driven and the CNET News column Technically Incorrect. In 2013, he was named by Mediapost as the Most Influential Person on Madison Avenue, with Barack Obama coming in 16th. In an advertising career spanning London, Singapore, Warsaw, New York and San Francisco, Chris helped build brands and businesses and won some of the most prestigious creative awards in the world. His campaign against domestic violence in Poland was a national phenomenon and gained worldwide attention, being featured on the front-page of the New York Times. Since leaving the agency world, he’s continued advising brands large and small, as well as speaking and writing. In January, he gave a speech at CES in Las Vegas, with David Copperfield as a member of the audience. (No pressure.)
Chris Matyszczyk

Computerworld

Barbara Krasnoff

BARBARA KRASNOFF is senior reviews editor for Computerworld and has been an editor and writer of technology features and reviews since the Intel 286 microprocessor was considered innovative. Before joining Computerworld, she worked for numerous technology publications, including PC Magazine, Personal Computing, PC Sources, Computer Shopper, Portable Computing, and InformationWeek. She is also the author of a number of speculative-fiction short stories.
Barbara Krasnoff

Computerworld

Thornton May

THORNTON MAY is a futurist, a cognitive scientist and an anthropologist studying the value-producing behaviors of the various “tribes” comprising the modern enterprise. His book, The New Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics analyzes what organizations know; how they come to know and how they act upon what they know and don’t know. Passionate about obliterating digital ignorance from the executive suite he currently serves as Co-Director of the Innovation Lab at the Olin College of Engineering; Executive Director of the CIO Solutions Gallery at the Ohio State University College of Engineering. The editors at eWeek honored Thornton, including him on their list of ‘Top 100 Most Influential People in IT.’ The editors at Fast Company labeled him ‘one of the top 50 brains in technology today.’ http://www.thorntonamay.com

Computerworld

Tracy Mayor

TRACY MAYOR has covered technology as a reporter, writer and editor since the Apple Lisa was in beta. She is currently online and print features editor at Computerworld, where her work has won multiple ASBPE awards. She specializes in long-form journalism that explores the relationship between people and technology. Previously, she was a long-time contributor to CIO Magazine, and was on staff at Lotus Magazine, PC Week, Tele and Microcomputing. Her writing has been published in The Boston Globe, Writer’s Digest, Boston Magazine, Brain, Child Magazine and online on Salon, The Rumpus and the New York Times’ Motherlode blog, and she is the author of the parenting humor book “Mommy Prayers.” She tweets tech topics @CW_Tracy and lifestyle and culture observations @mommyprayers.
Tracy Mayor

Connecting Women Radio

Faten Abdallah

Photo and bio coming soon

Consumer Affairs

Mark Huffman

MARK HUFFMAN is a reporter for ConsumerAffairs.com. Since 2004 he has covered issues ranging from consumer product defects to developments in consumer technology. In 2007 he served on a Federal Trade Commission workshop panel examining negative option marketing practices. He has been a correspondent for Marketwatch.com, Westwood One Radio Networks and Associated Press Radio. He has also been a science and technology writer for United Press International and written about technology for Reuters New Media. He has been interviewed as a source on stories for NBC News, Forbes, Smart Money, and The Wall Street Journal. He received a B.A. degree from the University of Kentucky.
Mark Huffman

Data Breach Today

Mathew Schwartz

MATHEW SCHWARTZ is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience in magazines, newspapers and online media. He has covered the information security and privacy sector throughout his career, as well as working as a photojournalist and travel writer. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2014, where he now serves as the Executive Editor for Data Breach Today and for its European news coverage, Schwartz was the information security beat reporter for InformationWeek and a frequent contributor to DarkReading, amongst other publications. He lives in Scotland. Find him on Twitter at @euroinfosec.
Mathew Schwartz

ECT News Network

Jack Germain

JACK M. GERMAIN has been writing about computer technology since the early days of the Apple II and the IBM PC. Over the past four decades, Jack has worked on both sides of the editorial desk for numerous organizations as writer and editor. His feature articles, technology blogs, and specialty columns are published by ECT News Network. Jack writes for TechNewsWorld, The E-Commerce Times, LinuxInsider, and CRMBuyer, and blogs about technology and education issues for Hackcollege.com.
Jack M. Germain

Entrepreneur

Linda Lacina

Photo and bio coming soon

eWeek

Frank Ohlhorst

FRANK J. OHLHORST is an award winning technology journalist and professional speaker with over 25 years of experience in the technology arena. Frank has written for several leading technology publications, including ComputerWorld, TechTarget, PCWorld, ExtremeTech and Toms Hardware. Frank has also contributed to business publications, including Entrepreneur and BNET, and to multiple technology books, and has written several white papers, case studies, reviewers’ guides and channel guides for leading technology vendors.
Frank J. Ohlhorst

Forbes

Hugh McIntyre

HUGH MCINTYRE is a freelance journalist who covers all things related to the music industry, primarily for Forbes. He has also written for several dozen other publications, including Billboard, Mashable, The Huffington Post, MTV, Mic, and Noisey, to name just a few.

Freelance

Kevin Casey

KEVIN CASEY writes about technology and business for a wide variety of publications and companies. He won an Azbee Award, given by the American Society of Business Publication Editors, for his InformationWeek.com story, “Are You Too Old For IT?”. He’s a former community choice honoree in the Small Business Influencer Awards. Find him on LinkedIn and Twitter..
Kevin Casey

Hartford Business Journal

Keith Griffin

KEITH GRIFFIN, currently a contributing editor to the Hartford Business Journal, is a veteran journalist with more than 30 years’ experience at local, regional and national publications. He was a founding editor of four lifestyle magazines and an award-winning business writer for the Connecticut Law Tribune. In addition, he is a guide for About.com and has been a contributing automotive journalist for publications including The Boston Globe.
Keith Griffin

Healthcare Innovation News

Mari Edlin

MARI EDLIN is editor of Population Health News, Healthcare Innovation News and Accountable Care News. A graduate of Stanford University, she has more than 25 years of experience in journalism and has been a freelance writer since 1988. She has specialized in healthcare since 1993, writing regularly for Managed Healthcare Executive, to which she contributes a monthly article on pharmacy issues, Drug Topics and other national healthcare and pharmaceutical trade publications. She also works closely with many companies and organizations, helping to develop issue briefs, white papers and reports. She serves on numerous media panels and has taught a variety of communications workshops at Stanford University.
Mari Edlin

Inc.

Douglas Cantor

DOUG CANTOR is a senior editor at Inc.com. Over his career, he has served as an editor at Bloomberg Businessweek, Popular Science, and Esquire, and written for publications including Men’s Journal, ESPN The Magazine, Departures, BlackBook, Time Out New York, Mental Floss, and many others. Doug holds a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and a master¹s degree from Northwestern University¹s Medill School of Journalism.
Douglas Cantor

InfoWorld

Fahmida Rashid

Photo and bio coming soon

Investment Advisor Magazine

Melanie Waddell

MELANIE WADDELL is the Washington Bureau Chief for Investment Advisor magazine and ThinkAdvisor.com, part of ALM Media LLC. She has been a columnist for Investment Advisor since 2002, has served as New York Bureau Chief for the magazine, and has been a financial journalist/editor since 1994. Her column, The Playing Field, appears in Investment Advisor Magazine and on ThinkAdvisor.com, and she also writes for ALM’s National Law Journal and Law.com. Early in her career, Melanie covered financial issues at American Banker in Washington. Since 1997, she has been covering investment-related issues, holding senior level editorial positions at American Banker/Thomson Media/Thomson Financial in both Washington and New York. After seven years at Thomson, now Reuters, Melanie joined Investment Advisor. Melanie holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from Towson University; while at Towson, she interned at The Baltimore Sun and its suburban edition.
Melanie Waddell

Investment Advisor Magazine

Bob Clark

Photo and bio coming soon

Journal Times

Mick Burke

MICHAEL BURKE is an award-winning journalist who has been covering all facets of business for The Journal Times of Racine, Wis., for 16 ½ years. Racine, a metropolitan area of about 120,000 people between Milwaukee and Chicago, is a hotbed for manufacturing and home to such companies as SC Johnson and Modine Manufacturing and the Case IH agriculture and construction machinery brand. Most recently, Burke won first place for Business Reporting in the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s 2013 Better Newspaper Contest for his series “The Job Skills Gap.” Burke also hosts a weekly online business interview show called “Money Talks.” Before covering business, Burke covered both government and education.
Michael Burke

King Features Syndicate

Dale Dauten

DALE DAUTEN has been researching achievers and innovation since his days at Arizona State and at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. His early work prompted a government publication to call him a “guru” to White House staffers, and during the past four decades, his six books have been published in a dozen languages and have developed a large following worldwide. Dale writes newspaper columns nationally syndicated by King Features. For many years, he wrote “The Corporate Curmudgeon,” and he continues to write “JT and Dale Talk Jobs” with employment expert, Jeanine “JT” O’Donnell. Their work appears weekly in dozens of newspapers, including The Denver Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Arizona Republic and Houston Chronicle.
Dale Dauten

L.A. Biz

Annlee Ellingson

ANNLEE ELLINGSON is a staff writer at L.A. Biz, Los Angeles’ digital bureau at American City Business Journals, where she covers entertainment and technology. Other chapters of her life include a decade all-told in various editorial positions at BoxOffice Magazine, a trade publication for the motion-picture exhibition industry. She’s also written about film for the Los Angeles Times, PasteMagazine.com, Moving Pictures magazine, and Los Angeles Weekly. A Midwest transplant to Los Angeles, she holds a Master of Professional Writing from the University of Southern California.
Annlee Ellingson

Lab Reviews

Jonathan Roubini

JONATHAN ROUBINI is editor in chief and technical director of LabReviews.com, bringing to the site more than three decades of hands-on experience. Previously, Jonathan was lead analyst of the mobile category at PC Magazine, quickly gaining recognition in the wireless industry thanks to his extensive knowledge of PDAs, cell phones and their accessories. Prior to that, Jonathan was software project leader at PC Magazine Labs, where he pioneered several new testing techniques for always-evolving software packages. Jonathan graduated with a B.S. in Information and Decision Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.

MakeUseOf

Gavin Phillips

GAVIN PHILLIPS is a freelance journalist, primarily contributing to technology-simplification website, MakeUseOf. Gavin currently covers Microsoft, Windows, and all things cyber-security, but in a nine-year writing career has covered topics as diverse as electronic hardware production, the global e-waste epidemic, pharmaceuticals, and burgeoning real estate markets. Currently living in Cornwall, UK, he holds a B.A. Contemporary Writing from Falmouth University, and you can follow his work and ramblings @GavinSpavin.

MediaPost

Laurie Sullivan

LAURIE SULLIVAN is the search editor of Search Marketing Daily, a MediaPost publication, and serves as the chairperson for the Search Insider Summit, a twice yearly think-tank search conference . A technology and marketing geek since 1985, Sullivan also writes about the electronics supply chain for EBNOnline.com, a UBM publication. She has contributed to Advertising Age, BNet, and wrote full-time for Red Herring, InformationWeek, and EBN, among other media publishers and university publications. Prior to becoming a journalist in 2000, Sullivan wrote copy, produced content, and published marketing material for clients like Microsoft and Computer Associates while working for 10 years in the in-house advertising and marketing agency at computer distributor Ingram Micro. She holds a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Chapman University. You can follow her on Twitter at @LaurieSullivan.
Laurie Sullivan

Multifamily Executive and Builder magazines

Kayla Devon

KAYLA DEVON is an associate editor for Hanley Wood’s residential construction group where she writes for magazines including Builder and Multifamily Executive, the leading resources for the single-family and multifamily building industries. She started out reporting on product and technology innovations in housing and has grown to cover market strategy, brand development, and property management. She received her B.A. in Journalism from Temple University.
Kayla Devon

NerdWallet.com

Ellen Cannon

ELLEN CANNON is a staff writer at NerdWallet.com, covering credit cards. Previously she was editorial director of the personal finance sites of QuinStreet and managing editor at Bankrate.com. Prior to joining the digital world, she held editorial leadership positions at Bloomberg, Entertainment Weekly and the Australian edition of People magazine.
Ellen Cannon

Network World

Keith Shaw

KEITH SHAW has been a fan of computers, technology and video games for more than four decades, and his obsession with technology, large and small, has grown into the multimedia empire known as Network World’s Cool Tools. In the ’90s, Shaw took a side trip to the world of newspaper journalism, working his craft for newspapers in New York, Florida and Massachusetts. In 1997, he combined his love of technology with journalism, joining Computerworld and then transferring to Network World in 1999 as the company’s product reviews editor. He has written the Cool Tools column since 2000, which now appears as a regular blog on the Networkworld.com website. For the past five years, Shaw has been the Multimedia Content Editor for IDG Enterprise, creating video content for Computerworld, CIO.com, ITworld.com, CSOonline.com, DEMO.com, NetworkWorld.com and other properties under the IDG Enterprise umbrella. He holds a bachelor’s degree in newspaper journalism from Syracuse University.

Nutmeg Consultants

Ken Werner

KENNETH I. WERNER is the founder and Principal of Nutmeg Consultants and was the Editor of Information Display Magazine from 1987 to 2005. He is Senior Analyst for MEKO, Ltd., a founding co-editor of MEKO’s Display Daily, and a regular contributor to HDTVexpert.com. As an active member of the display industry since 1987, Ken regularly addresses technical and trade organizations in the Americas and Asia, and is routinely consulted by financial analysts, attorneys, members of the international press corps, and companies requiring more understanding of the industry, including markets, the business environment for technology-based companies, and the appropriateness of particular displays and technologies for particular applications.
Ken Werner

Portland Business Journal

Andy Giegerich

Photo and bio coming soon

Rockstar Finance

Jay Money

JAY MONEY is an award winning blogger, consultant, experimenter, and daddy. With over eight years building communities online, Jay’s projects have reached 18 million+ views and are routinely featured in the media. He is best known for the personal finance blog, BudgetsAreSexy.com, as well as his curation site – RockstarFinance.com. He loves coffee, hip-hop, and collecting coins, and is on a mission to make personal finance fun.

Security Products Magazine

Ralph C. Jensen

RALPH C. JENSEN is the editor in chief of Security Products magazine, the security industry’s leading publication for the manufacturer, dealer/integrator and end user. He has been involved in the journalism industry for 40 years, including 20 years in the security industry and 5 years as a public information officer with the Air Force. A graduate of Brigham Young University with a degree in chemical engineering, Ralph spent about three years in that field before seizing an opportunity to work in the publishing industry. He has worked at three community newspapers and two daily publications. He also studied at Utah State University, earning a masters’s degree in environmental sciences.
Ralph C. Jensen

South Florida Business Journal

Brian Bandell

BRIAN BANDELL is a senior reporter at the South Florida Business Journal. Over the past 11 years, he has won 12 awards each from the Florida Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists, including a First Place Green Eyeshade for his coverage of Medicare Fraud in Miami. He is also a novelist with Silver Leaf Books, having released science fiction thriller Mute and the suspenseful Famous After Death about murder gone viral.
Brian Bandell

Statehood Media

Kevin Max

KEVIN MAX is the founder and chief content officer for Statehood Media (1859 Oregon’s Magazine, 1889 Washington’s Magazine). He has covered IPOs for the New York Times/TheStreet.com, traded S&P options at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and written speeches for top figures in financial services and politics. A graduate of Medill School of Journalism, Kevin now lives in Bend, Oregon. You can find him at www.statehoodmedia.com or on LinkedIn.
Kevin Max

StayAdventurous.com

Craig Zabransky

CRAIG ZABRANSKY is an ex-global management consultant for Wall Street banks gone rogue. After a year long travel sabbatical, he eventually left Wall Street to pursue his passion in travel. Now he podcasts, writes, blogs, and photographs destinations on StayAdventurous.com, aiming to inspire others to take and make adventure in their life. To date he has traveled through 50 countries, 45 U.S. States and 5 continents. Craig was a finalist for best photography (bloggies) and best adventure blog (flipkey, TBU) in the last year and has been seen on Fox and Friends, AOL, SiriusXM Radio, Florida Travel and Life, Unwind Magazine, Porthole Magazine, and many other outlets both online and in print. You can find him at StayAdventurous.com and @StayAdventurous.
Craig Zabransky

TECH50+

Gary M. Kaye

GARY M. KAYE is an award-winning journalist who has been covering technology since IBM introduced its first personal computer in 1981. Beginning at NBC News, then at ABC News, Ziff Davis, CNN, and Fox Business Network, Kaye has a history of “firsts”. He was the first to bring a network television crew to the Comdex Computer Show, the first technology producer on ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, the first to produce live coverage of the Solar Power International Conference, and the creator of the Fox Business Network signature series, “Three Days In The Valley”. He has been a contributor to both AARP’s website and to AARP radio, as well as to a handful of other print and web-based publications where he specializes in issues involving boomers/seniors and technology. His column, “Technology Through Our Eyes” appears in half a dozen newspapers and websites across the country.

Tech-Gaming

Robert Allen

A ceaseless appreciation for interactive entertainment is what drives ROBERT ALLEN, Tech-Gaming.com’s editor and podcasting personality. Having written over two thousand reviews, and interviewed a wide swath of the industries’ luminaries, Robert aspires to share his appreciation for the medium with an ever-growing audience interested the intersection of technology, gaming, and culture. When a controller isn’t in hand, he can usually be found clutching a dry-erase marker- instructing classes in writing, communication, and technology at two Southern California colleges.
Robert Allen

The Penny Hoarder

Kyle Taylor

KYLE TAYLOR is the CEO and founder of The Penny Hoarder, one of the largest personal finance websites with over 12 million readers a month. The Penny Hoarder has pioneered a new kind of personal finance media with stories about real people and actionable money tips that make a true difference in readers’ budgets. In 2016, Inc. Magazine named The Penny Hoarder the 32nd fastest-growing private company and #1 fastest-growing private media company in America. Kyle is active in local politics after spending nearly six years on the road as a campaign worker crafting media strategy, directing field workers, and raising millions of dollars for important causes. He feels passionately that people should earn a liveable wage no matter what their job.
Kyle Taylor

Tripwire

Joe Pettit

JOE PETTIT is the managing editor at Tripwire. Joe graduated with a degree in Business and Marketing in 2009 and then went on to create and develop the popular IT Security blog, Information Security Buzz. From that venture, Joe moved to Tripwire where he has continued to aid the development of their award-winning blog, The State of Security. Joe specializes in SEO, Social Media, Lead Generation and implementing new strategies to help develop Tripwire’s online presence. You can follow Joe on Twitter.
Joe Pettit

Wall Street Journal

Candace Taylor

CANDACE TAYLOR is a reporter covering residential real estate for the Wall Street Journal. She started writing about real estate at the New York Sun in 2008, then moved on to The Real Deal Magazine. She graduated from Amherst College and has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Candace Taylor

Wired

Christopher Null

CHRISTOPHER NULL is an award-winning journalist who has been covering business and technology for 20 years. A veteran of PC Computing, Yahoo! Tech, and New Architect and the founding editor in chief of Mobile PC Magazine, there is no segment of the high-tech universe he hasn’t covered. Today he continues to cover business and technology topics for Wired and PC World, among other publications, while running his own custom blogging company, Null Media, which provides turnkey editorial services to corporate clients.
Christopher Null

WLRN

Gina Jordan

GINA JORDAN has been on the radio for more than 25 years. Gina is a Tallahassee-based reporter for WLRN, South Florida’s NPR station. Her duties include reporting from the Capitol, producing talk shows, and editing news scripts. Prior to that, she was a senior producer at WFSU-FM in Tallahassee and spent 15 years as an anchor at Orlando commercial stations WDBO, WWKA, and WWNZ. She has produced blogs and features for the NPR education reporting project StateImpact Florida, as well as podcasts and articles for Regarding ID magazine. Gina’s stories and newscasts have been honored by PRNDI, Green Eyeshade, Murrow, and the Associated Press, including Best in Show. When she’s not producing news, Gina teaches drama at Young Actors Theatre in Tallahassee. She’s on Twitter @HearYourThought.
Gina Jordan

ZDNet

Charlie Osborne

Charlie Osborne, contributor at ZDNet and CNET, is a journalist who specialises in cybersecurity and business innovation. Over the course of her career, she has also worked as a freelancer for various publications, covering ed-tech, B2B, enterprise and IoT technology. She also works in photojournalism. Prior to joining the pool of technology writers, Charlie earned her living as an English teacher, photographer and web developer. Currently living in London, UK, Charlie holds a degree in Medical Anthropology from the University of Kent. Follow her on Twitter at @SecurityCharlie.
Charlie Osborne